ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 61853

Champaign County, Illinois: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

153
Property rate /100K (county)
14,288
Population (ZIP)
39
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 61853 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 61853 sits within Champaign County, IL, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Reported crime here runs well below the national average: 39 violent incidents and 153 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024, per county-level agency submissions.

ZIP 61853 carries a Census-reported population of 14,288, ranking #6 of 29 ZIPs in Champaign County, spread across 47.97 square miles (about 298 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Champaign County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Champaign County crime page linked below.

ZIP 61853 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Champaign County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 61853 Census context

These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.

Median household income
$112,169
Median age
38.5 years
Owner-occupied homes
85%
Occupied homes
4,913

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 61853?

Within the participating-agency records for Champaign County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 89% below and property crime is 91% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 61853. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

ZIP 61853 sits near the middle of Champaign County's ZIP population ordering (#6 of 29). The county comparison is useful regional context, but it cannot say how reported incidents are distributed within this postal area.

Champaign County UCR book ZIP 61853 inherits

ZIP 61853 itself is about 298 people per Census sq mi across 48 sq mi (14,288 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 61853 accounts for roughly 6.9% of the county reporting population (14,288 of 205,865).

Champaign County leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses (mix index 3,037). ZIP 61853 has no separate FBI offense book.

Champaign County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -28% vs 2023; property counts -7% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Champaign County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 61853

Similar county violent rate (~39/100K)

Similar Census population (~14,288)

County detail: Champaign County · State atlas: Illinois

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).

Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.